Opinion

This week, the Business Record looks forward into 2013.

In this week’s column, however, I’ll be looking back to see how business, throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, helped the Des Moines metro area become …

As 2012 comes to an end, all of us at the Business Record along with our readers are missing our friend and colleague Jim Pollock, who died April 19 at the too-young age of 59.…

Janet Roewe Piller, 60, has been preparing her whole life for the unusual business she opened last year, TLC Vintage Collections.

Her Urbandale store mixes high-end paint sales, furniture refinishing and adult education with a …

The State Historical Society of Iowa is poised to begin a new chapter as it enters its 156th year in January.

Tonight, Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds are hosting a gala celebration …

The aftermath of the 2012 election is a good vantage point for viewing Peter Fisher’s new study “Selling Snake Oil to the States.”

On election night, Republican guru Karl Rove was incredulous at President Obama’s …

I’m tired of hearing about the fiscal cliff from politicians and commentators, most of whom have no more foresight than Chicken Little.

Few have any idea how to clean up the economic mess we are …

A lot happened in 2012 that I’d just as soon forget, starting with the Iowa caucuses, which were followed by an incredibly divisive election and one of the worst droughts we’ve seen in years.

Nonetheless, …

Gov. Terry Branstad and the Iowa Legislature have a once-in-a-generation opportunity next year to make meaningful changes to Iowa tax laws.

Economic circumstances and fiscal policies have combined to provide state government with its largest-ever …

We know the Des Moines metro area and Iowa as a whole are appealing places in which to live, do business and raise a family. One major component to that success is the way Iowa …

A new play with strong Iowa ties about women and venture capital completed a successful three-week run at the Tides Theater in San Francisco last weekend. The play, “And That’s What Little Girls Are Made …